Tenacious D Need You!

Having been shamefully denied the Kerrang! award for Best Video (probably by dint of it only turning up about 3 weeks before voting ended), Tribute (To The Greatest Song In The World) is in line for an NME Carling Award as well. Having seen the other contenders, only The White Stripes' Fell In Love With A Girl really rivals it as a video... but some of the other entrants are for more popular bands. Thus, Tenacious D Need You! to vote for them here.

Creativity update

My involvement in ELN's Lasombra Chronicles will probably be limited to writing a few chapters, possibly some advice on running chapters separately from the series as a whole and some proofing. Mostly this is because it looks like there will be a High Concept story-arc to the series, concerning elders and Antediluvians and a threat to the entire world. There isn't a handy deus ex machina in the current outline, which is refreshing, but essentially it's not a style of Vampire I prefer.

Robin Laws talks about his vision of Iron Man here. It sounds like an interesting writeup of the inventor hero ideal.

I wonder what JM Straczynski is doing with Dr. Strange.

Actually, I don't. I have a dozen solid storylines for a sardonic occult investigator which I'm sure will turn up somewhere. We'll see, I suppose. They don't really fit the action-heavy tone of 2000AD, Britain's sole bastion of genre comics, really feeling more like twenty-two pages in one issue, not six per week. If nowhere else, they'll turn up in gaming.